Loading…
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language : How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World /
Argues that the domestication of the horse and the use of the wheel by the prehistoric peoples of the central Eurasian steppe grasslands facilitated the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language across most of the ancient world.
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
|
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Language and archaeology.
- The promise and politics of the mother tongue
- How to reconstruct a dead language
- Language and time 1: the last speakers of Proto-Indo-European
- Language and time 2 : wool, wheels, and Proto-Indo-European
- Language and place : the location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland
- The archaeology of language
- pt. 2. The opening of the Eurasian steppes.
- How to reconstruct a dead culture
- First farmers and herders : the Pontic-Caspian Neolithic
- Cows, copper, and chiefs
- The domestication of the horse and the origins of riding : the tale of the teeth
- The end of Old Europe and the rise of the steppe
- Seeds of change on the steppe borders : Maikop chiefs and Tripolye towns
- Wagon dwellers of the steppe : the speakers of Proto-Indo-European
- The western Indo-European languages
- Chariot warriors of the northern steppes
- The opening of the Eurasian steppes
- Words and deeds.